Regional News

Thu 27 Feb 2020

TAKE THE TEST: Basic science questions kids can’t answer

Education Latest science literacy data reveals the basic science questions Australian students can’t answer. Can you? TAKE A LOOK AT THE QUESTIONS

WASTE NOT: Horticultural waste with ‘enormous value’

News Feasibility studies are being undertaken into creating food supplements and biogas from waste.

Call to appeal child porn doc’s sentence

Crime The Attorney-General is being pressured to appeal the sentence of a Rockhampton doctor caught on a plane in Canada producing child exploitation material.

No more cuddles with koalas at Hamilton Island

News The decision was made as a move to continue a ‘commitment to koalas’.

'Blow this opportunity...it'll be an outcome you won’t like'

News Punching a windscreen has landed a Laguna Quays man in court for breaching a domestic violence order.

The ‘dodgy’ fee you won’t have to pay any more

News It’s a fee consumers are slugged with often, and one few of them understand. But under Federal Government measures it will become a thing of the past.

Pharmacists move further into GPs’ turf

Health The State Government has moved to expand the reach of Queensland pharmacists — and the peak body for GPs is expected to oppose it.

Wed 26 Feb 2020

Ben Barba charged over pub ‘incident’

Rugby League Former NRL player Ben Barba has been arrested and charged after an incident in a Mackay Pub.

'Worst state they’ve ever seen': More puppies dumped

News For the third time in a week a litter of puppies is fighting for their lives.

Addict on dole busted leaving home with dangerous loot

News The man said he was ‘visiting a friend’ when police caught him trying to make his escape.

Jail for Bowen Basin miner's brazen rape of a sleeping woman

News The 26 year old raped the young woman while she slept and her boyfriend was in the shower

CQ pub owner denies alleged racist comment

News An Indigenous woman has accused a CQ pub owner of an alleged racist incident involving her two young sons.

Souths to unleash secret weapon on Round 1

Rugby League Just days after Mackay’s best were displayed in the City v Country match, the Sharks recruited an NRL experienced “wildcard”.

Whitsundays’ first conservation council launched

News The Whitsundays’ first conservation council was launched last Friday with big plans for helping to protect the region’s biodiversity and natural environment.

One half of quarantined cruise couple now home

News Glenn ‘Boris’ Dunn arrived home safely after a coronavirus scare, however Lynne is still in quarantine.

’He’s dead isn’t he?’: Wife’s heartbreaking phone call

News A nurse knew her husband had been killed even before the heartbreaking call from police, saying she has lost her soulmate who will “forever be 59 years old”.